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Overview

Details

Property

house

Sleeps

7

Bedrooms

3

Bathrooms

0

Half Baths

2

Minimum Stay

1 - 7 nights

Description

Morcellement Raffray House Rental Photos and Description

(Text automatically translated) Villa Belifage II is 5 mins from the sandy beach of Albion. Walk along the beach and you find yourself on the beach of Club Med. Provide a ride to the viisiter Albion lighthouse preference after the afternoon where you will be amazed by the magnificent sunset. After a short walk and you're in front of the ocean, lulled by the lapping waves of the ocean sitting on benches. Relaxation guaranteed. The pool of the villa in the middle of wooded garden with 13 coconut and mango trees.During the mango season, enjoy as many as you want. The large terraces and balconies definitely offer more to the villa and allow you to take breakfast, lunch and dinner in the open air.

We love this place

Take a tall glass, half fill it with ice, add a good glug of white rum, fill the rest with lemonade (not the brown stuff that my Mauritian grandfather referred to as 'cola-cola; that would be 'Cuba Libre', add a twist of that fruity small citron from Rodrigues Island and you have yourself a Moris Libre. Now you will need an elegant, authentic creole veranda to sit under to savour your Moris Libre. I know just the place, it is attached to Villa Belifage II at Albion. Now you are set for a tropical holiday. The veranda of this smart villa overlooks the swimming pool and the neat tropical garden with several fruit trees. We spent several hours every day of our holiday during Mid August to Mid September whiling the time away reading, chatting, discussing, eating, drinking and so on under this very same veranda.

The rest of the villa is also carefully well appointed; all as described on the HomeAway site. However what you won't find there is the little attention to details that Madam and Monsieur Bozelle have invested in the well being of their guests. Yes we felt like guests rather than 'tenants'. Details such as the availability of a local mobile phone, the basket of books many by local authors, ample crockeries (in including a tureen) and cutleries, pots and pans of every description and dimension, glasses galore and god quality sharp knives. Yes we were sharing the home of someone who cooks. If like me you are a coffee fanatic you have at your disposal, a caffetier, a moka and a nespresso type machine.

The hand picked staff team is headed by the inimitable and charming Veronique who welcomed us and waited for us as we were late arriving at the villa. Veronique also came to see us every day, with that charming greeting welcome Mauritian ritual of a kiss on both cheeks, Ragini who showed us many acts of kindness, went about her business unobtrusively and efficiently. Ti Maurice, the gardener found us an out of season mango.

Taking a walk with Veronique and Jean Paul around the village of Albion is a delight, one has to exchange a few words with so many people and the know many people...Giving each other the time of day is a tradition here..coze cozer in the local lingo.

from the first moment we arrived at Villa Belifage 2 we felt very comfortable. Francoise and Gerard (the owners of the villa) offered a warm welcome.

We asked if somebody could support with cooking the dinner and Francoise was so kind to do that by herself, so we had very delicous Mauritian cuisine every evening. Francoise also is open to be asked any question or wishes and she helps with good tips how to explore the island.

Our haunt was the relaxing veranda with nice view on the pool and the garden with mango and coconut trees, were we could eat up the fruits fresh from the trees.

We could sleep very well and the air condition is needed at night and works good with low-noise.

At Albion the attractive part of the beach is closed to Club Med hotel which is the only one in this area.

Albion is quiet and spenting holidays there feels more like beeing part of the native family. At Dodo supermarket we could buy everything we needed included very fresh baquette for small money.

Biggest thanks to Francoise (her warm hospitality is outstanding), and the whole team. To make Villa Belifage the home-away for vacation ist best choice we could make and we already feel craving to go back there – hopefully we can do that again!

Map

Nearest Airport

47
Kilometres

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam

Nearest Restaurant

1
Kilometres

Restaurant Wave

Nearest Beach

300
Metres

Albion

(Text automatically translated) Follow the direction of Albion Road, to the public beach, keep following the road until the third donkey, turn into Albatross Street, at the end of this street, turn left - large villa with a large gate.

(Text automatically translated) Club Med La Plantation is not far, offers the possibility of having access to the facilities against payment. Beautiful beach in front of Club Med. Chinese restaurant and pizzeria in the locality. A chic new restaurant The Robinsons is operational and provides an excellent price / quality ratio.